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2004-05-19 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-19 07:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I can't believe we have so many Marine snipers. There must be thousands of them and they must be damn near invisible. I realize the reporter was relating what he was told but how could a "reporter" not try to verify or at least get an opposing viewpoint of this assertion by these thugs? He seems to take everything that was told him as absolute truth. I trust the mainstream American media about as far as I can throw my thumb.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-05-19 7:59:38 AM|| 2004-05-19 7:59:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I can't decide who's the greater idiot: the ignorant jihadi who applauds our getting rid of Saddam but hates us for not having packed up and gone home immediately after, or the lackwit, suck-up sycophantic Newsweek reporter who believes everything the jihadi says.

Shoot them both.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-05-19 8:15:30 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:15:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 at that website, notice the photo of the graphetti "all donne go home" with talk of quagmire and still so much violence in Iraq???

If someone was going to misspell "done", why would they use two n's? It's not a phonetic misspelling and generally a misspelling would miss a silent letter, not add it in. Example, one is more likely to write "mispell" or graffete" or "grapheti", rather than misspell or graphetti.

If it's not a phonetic mistake, then someone had to translate it for them and thus they'd spell it right.

I know it could have happened, but it just seems contrived to me. Especially since that MSNBC site might as well be AlJiz.

Posted by B 2004-05-19 8:28:09 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:28:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 heh..heh...I meant grafetti... it just makes my point even further ;-)

Posted by B 2004-05-19 8:30:21 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:30:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 im hatte it when grafitti artist cant spell.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-05-19 8:30:45 AM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-05-19 8:30:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Graffiti. Two f's, one t.

Posted by Picky 2004-05-19 8:50:29 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:50:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

Posted by snellenr 2004-05-19 9:47:31 AM|| [http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-08.htm] 2004-05-19 9:47:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 :-)

what can i say?

Posted by B 2004-05-19 9:53:25 AM|| 2004-05-19 9:53:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 This bears out the notion that the bad guys are holed up primarily in one neighborhood. I fully expect the Marines to go in there hard in the next few weeks. I would also imagine we are working the recon and intelligence angles hard.

Finally, I liked this: "When the Marines invaded last month, Mohammed was one of hundreds of neighborhood men and teenagersâincluding many former Iraqi soldiersâwho answered the call to arms from local mosques. "How would you feel if French soldiers or Arab soldiers invaded your city, and killed your friends, your family?""

Given a choice of who to fight, I think almost everyone would choose the French and the Arabs given their respective track records in modern times. What a maroon!

Posted by Tibor 2004-05-19 10:23:02 AM|| 2004-05-19 10:23:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 #1 how could a "reporter" not try to verify or at least get an opposing viewpoint of this assertion by these thugs?

Rhetorical question, eh?

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-19 10:45:40 AM|| 2004-05-19 10:45:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Interesting how closely they identify with the French, isn't it?

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-19 1:03:25 PM|| 2004-05-19 1:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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